No Snow

Since some of you have been asking me "how's the weather?" I thought I would tell you why I haven't mentioned anything big on here.... we don't have snow!!! It apparently is the driest winter Colorado has had since the 1880s. It has been nice for us to get used to the snow slowly (and it has only rained once since we moved here), but now a lot of fires are happening. Here are the numbers the news just did a story about for Denver:

• Current snow fall from Sept. 2008 - March 2009 = 18.8 inches
• Arverage snow fall in past years from Sept-March = 51.3 inches

Sept. '08 = zero inches

Oct. '08 = zero inches

Nov. '08 = 1.7 inches

Dec. '08 = 10.3 inches

Jan. '09 = 4.9 inches

Feb. '09 = zero inches

March '09 = 1.9 inches (so far)

These numbers show that it's amazing that Margaret, Sherry, Angela, and Micah were able to see snow (even if it was just on the ground) when they visited over November, December, and January. The weather lately has been in the 60's or 70's during the day - beautiful! However, sometimes it seems a lot colder because of the wind. We have this coming Sunday off, and we are looking forward to being outside either hiking or bike riding. We hope the weather stays this way, but with the snow season going all the way through May, I'm a little worried we might get a down pour sometime (how many inches of snow fall does it take to call it a blizard?). I'll let you know if anything changes. In the meantime, enjoy the funky Florida weather for us!